The Department of Extraordinary Upcycling is celebrating the new year by enjoying these shiny metal birbs created by South-Carolina based artist Matt Wilson using old silverware and pieces of driftwood or old lumber.
To look at spoons and forks in the silverware drawer, you wouldn’t think they were particularly birdlike, but Wilson’s silverware birbs feel so lifelike, it’s as though we’ve been using our silverware wrong all this time until he came along figured out just what to do.
The most amazing thing is those aren’t just generic birds? Like you can even tell what species they are supposed to be even without color, even though they’re fucking silverware. Incredible.
I didn’t notice what they were until I read the description.
Here’s Reaver minus color.
If you’re curious, here’s the progression of the whole work: https://imgur.com/gallery/qsk1S
This is done in pencils. Mechanical pencil for basic shapes, #2 pencil for outlines, and 7 different Prismacolor pencils, plus a blender, for the color.
Everyone, meet Reaver.
(Please imagine his color smooth and shiny, there’s a limit to what I can do with pencils.)
His color nanites fill scars in black, and he makes no effort to change that, scars are things of pride where he’s from.
Look at those wings!
EDIT from later: I’ve changed his colors. His plating is a bit more towards purple, and his faceplates are a deep purple. His optics are the same design, but with a gold ring instead of red.
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